All participants add their ideas, inspired by virtual events held around the world by local organizers in each city. The city with the most ideas will receive the award for the most creative city.
Girls, parents
Recent research found that between 8 and 14 girls confidence plummets. The same research found that 8 out of 10 girls wanted to feel more confident. As educators and parents we have the opportunity to prevent internal confidence battles girls in particular go through. Sharing strong confident images of females has been shown to improve confident in girls and their grades with no impact on boys (strong images of males or 'inspirational' words have no impact on girls). My question is why are we not displaying images of strong powerful female role models.
I took this a stage further by having my year 5 (9 year old) students find confident women quotes. Michelle Obama "When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous"; Louise May Alcott "I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship";
students then had to share it with their family, and present to the class and explain why they picked that quote and
confidence building
Communicating to schools and to the community through the connections we have in the university
We are a university and have a access to academics, lecturers and students to help bring ideas forward. We also have many business connections which we can partner up with if required.
I would lead/coordinate. My name is Karl McCormack. I am a Senior Lecturer in The Business School and a Pedagogic Innovator at Staffordshire University in the UK.
Short term: raise awareness and show best practice
Long term: share the results and role out to more schools and wider community
Women empowerment, diversity and inclusion and awareness. Children talking about their views and engaging family with their studies.
Local, Uk then national UK. Could be global very easily
We are a university and have a access to academics, lecturers and students to help bring ideas forward. We also have many business connections which we can partner up with if required.
We also have the latest technology including 3d printers, CAD machines and specialist software. Faculties such as business, arts, mechanical engineering, architecture, bio science etc are able to come together to help bring an idea forward.
No costs associated, already activity is in place
